RE: When Atheists Can't Think Episode 1: No Evidence for God?
December 16, 2015 at 4:12 pm
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2015 at 4:18 pm by God of Mr. Hanky.)
(December 16, 2015 at 3:52 pm)Cephus Wrote:(December 15, 2015 at 4:16 pm)Delicate Wrote: One of the standard mantras atheists are taught to say is "I'm an atheist because I have seen no evidence for God."
This is not a convincing reason to be an atheist. Why?
It's possible for someone to be too blind or too ignorant to see or understand the evidence. Just like a toddler might say "I see no evidence of the validity of Quantum Mechanics" or a blind woman might say "I see no evidence of the existence of colors" the problem might be with the person and not the evidence.
Clearly, if the atheist wants the public to believe that there is no evidence, they have to be able to respond meaningfully to purported examples of theistic evidence.
Atheists here, for the most part are not competent enough to do this.
And hence, when someone says they are an atheist because they have seen no evidence, the best response seems to be to send them to an optometrist.
That is the ONLY reason to be an atheist. Nobody is saying there is no evidence, they are saying they haven't seen any. If they see some, then they should follow the evidence and alter their beliefs.
Or didn't you think of that?
I haven't seen any evidence for any gods, but I can also say there really isn't any when a god idea is presented with no empirical evidence, and this itself is poo-pooed in favor of "faith". Telling us to "have faith" and "open our eyes" (how's that for irony?) is throwing in the towel on the empirical evidence contest without even landing a tap. Then they continue to insist they have mountains of evidence, when that's only what they wrongly refer to their ridiculous and circular arguments as. Hey, when billions of people have been looking for real evidence over thousands of years, and those who would be most interested in finding this can't do better than ratchet up the insults a little more, then I think it's safe enough to say there is no evidence at all.
Anyway, empirical evidence and supernatural things are logically incompatible.
Then again, it's understandably impossible to explain this to people like the OP.
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